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Bangladesh February exports rise 13.6 percent as garment sales surge

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Mar 7, 2016

Bangladesh's exports rose 13.6 percent in February from a year earlier to $2.85 billion, boosted by stronger sales of garments, official data showed on Sunday.


Exports for July to February, the first eight months of the country's 2015-16 financial year, rose 8.9 percent from a year earlier to $22.12 billion, the Export Promotion Bureau said.

Sales of garments, comprising knitwear and woven items, totaled $18.13 billion in July-February, up 9.5 percent from a year earlier.

Garments are a key foreign-exchange earner for the South Asian nation, whose low wages and trade deals with Western markets have helped make it the world's second-largest apparel exporter after China.
 

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